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ArticleInternet interventions2023

Internet-based identification of anxiety in university students using text and facial emotion analysis.

Graciela Guerrero, Daniel Avila, Fernando José Mateus da Silva, António Pereira, Antonio Fernández-Caballero

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Article in Internet interventions, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Graciela GuerreroNeurocognition and Emotion Unit, Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Albacete, Spain.
Daniel AvilaDepartamento de Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolqui, Ecuador.
Fernando José Mateus da SilvaComputer Science and Communications Research Centre, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal.
António PereiraComputer Science and Communications Research Centre, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal.
Antonio Fernández-CaballeroNeurocognition and Emotion Unit, Instituto de Investigación en Informática de Albacete, Albacete, Spain.
Escuela Politécnica del Ejército · ECInstituto Politécnico de Leiria · PTUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Anxiety in university students can lead to poor academic performance and even dropout. The Adult Manifest Anxiety Scale (AMAS-C) is a validated measure designed to assess the level and nature of anxiety in college students. Objective: The aim of this study is to provide internet-based alternatives to the AMAS-C in the automated identification and prediction of anxiety in young university students. Two anxiety prediction methods, one based on facial emotion recognition and the other on text emotion recognition, are described and validated using the AMAS-C Test Anxiety, Lie and Total Anxiety scales as ground truth data. Methods: The first method analyses facial expressions, identifying the six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise) and the neutral expression, while the students complete a technical skills test. The second method examines emotions in posts classified as positive, negative and neutral in the students' profile on the social network Facebook. Both approaches aim to predict the presence of anxiety. Results: Both methods achieved a high level of precision in predicting anxiety and proved to be effective in identifying anxiety disorders in relation to the AMAS-C validation tool. Text analysis-based prediction showed a slight advantage in terms of precision (86.84 %) in predicting anxiety compared to face analysis-based prediction (84.21 %). Conclusions: The applications developed can help educators, psychologists or relevant institutions to identify at an early stage those students who are likely to fail academically at university due to an anxiety disorder.

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Adult manifest anxiety scale–college version (AMAS-C)AnxietyFacial expression analysisText sentiment analysisUniversity students

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PMID37822788
PMCPMC10562914
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